Back in late February, while Rose was away, Tilly (may she rest in peace) and I departed on one of our campervan trips. As is often the case when I’m doing these out-of-season jaunts, I set off not really knowing where I would end up, my itinerary being driven partly by the weather forecast, and partly just by a desire to see places I’d heard of but never visited before.
It ended up being a tour mostly of north-east England and south-west Scotland, and I captured rather a lot of video footage over the two-week trip, which I’ve finally managed to edit into something watchable! Watchable for me, anyway: I do this mostly to give me a chance to relive the experience many times over, and I also make the videos available just in case they’re also of interest to others.
The first part of that certainly works very well: the long reviewing and editing process means I have detailed memories of several of my past trips where there would otherwise be just a vague, hazy recollection. (It also means that the videos are rather longer than if I were making them for someone else!)
But as for the second part — will others watch them too? — well, I appreciate that there are many people, probably most people, for whom the idea of watching extended video footage of other people’s holidays may be a bizarre concept, but there are also a surprising number who do get enjoyment from this kind of thing… especially other campervan & motorhome owners who might be looking for places to visit or stay on their travels.
Over the years I have built up an extensive set of custom lists on Google Maps with titles like ‘Want to go‘ and ‘Overnight stop?‘, which have proved very handy when planning any kind of trip, and many of the little markers they contain have come from watching others’ videos and thinking, “Oooh. That looks rather good…Let me just mark that…”.
Anyway, I’ve now uploaded the first few episodes to a YouTube playlist called Up North & Down South, and the remainder will follow over the next couple of days, in the hope that, as someone once said, “people who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like”.
First episode here.
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